I thought that happened here, too. Burglars suing their victims for negligence, I mean. That's why all the self defense gurus say "Let 'em come in, then shoot 'em dead. No lawyer will represent a dead guy, as it's almost impossible to collect his fees".

No, the police are telling the people that there could be a civil action/no win no fee scumbag lawyer case against them if a burglar gets injured, but that is only information rather than advice as civil action is out of the polices hands and they can't actually stop any crook plus scumbag lawyer from engaging in speculative litigation.

I wouldn;t trust anything much that appears in the tabloids here, esp. the Torygraph or Daily Heil, it's usually pretty badly distorted, or just made up.

Btw there was a funny story a friend told me about 15 years back about a case like this, where a young lad scaled the fence of a factory, snuck through the grounds, then climbed on the roof to try and find a way in to burgle the place. Only he fell through the roof, hit a machine on the way down and broke his leg.

When his mom threatened to sue the factory, they decided he'd damaged the machine which needed replaceing and they were going to counter sue for £30k. After that the scumbags dropped the case.

"To be honest with you, I just assumed it was another symptom of Taren Capel being as mad as a bicycle."